Category: poetry

Pabst Smile

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Phil enjoys the taste of beer

So much, his mouth changed its veneer

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As the beer suds mellowed

All his teeth were yellowed

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Every morning, he gargles Pabst, I hear…

-aaa

Originally Published 05/21/2024

Journey of a Lifetime

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Winter is frigid

Winter is cold.

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Cold day in hell

Cold as ice.

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Ice cream sundae

Ice cream man.

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Man of the house

Man of war

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War what’s it good for

War games.

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Games a plenty

Games people play.

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Play the record

Play on words.

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Words of wisdom

Words can kill.

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Killer in you is the killer in me

Kill eye.

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Eye of the beholder

Eye of the tiger.

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Tiger eyes

Tiger lily.

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Lily livered

Lily White.

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White shoulders

White room.

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Room service

Room with a view.

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View to a kill

View from the window.

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Window washer

Window to my soul.

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Soul mate

Soul kitchen.

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Kitchen aid

Kitchen sink.

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Sink that put

Sink or swim.

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Swim in the main stream

Swim in the sea.

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Sea of Cortez

Sea of Joy.

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Joy ride

Joy to the world.

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World in my eyes

World without love.

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Love of a lifetime.

Love is a journey.

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Lifetime…

Journey…

-aaa

Originally Published 05/20/2024

Epic Ponders 

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Do ions ever lay still?

Can potatoes carry on discussions?

Are infinite sounds silent?

How do we measure eternity?

Are love and hate are forms of one another?

How soon are moments?

Could the zeroes in a google plex fill up an auditorium?

Why am I here?

Robitussin anyone?

-AAA 11/20/2024 

Word of The Day “Neglected”

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Neglected

Four Quatrains of Neglect

Oppressed husband and cruel life – Steemit

I felt quite neglected

It’s just that simple

Didn’t receive love as expected

Instead of a wave, a ripple

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I adored you every day

And do many little things

That’s why I feel dismay

That inequality brings

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I told you truth

And dealt with your vice

You were always were uncouth

With your pack of lies

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As I pay this final alimony

It hurts me like a knife

A manipulating phony

And never quite a wife…

-aaa

Originally Published 05/19/2024

Trial By Fire

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Graduating in life

Can cut like a knife.

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The rights of passage

Are through our assuage.

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The world has turned

With each lesson learned.

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Rising up from the dirt

Evolving with

change and hurt.

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With all triumphs and falls

Remain true to you, through it all.

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Clean up the mess

Hope for the best

Moving on to the next test…

-aaa

Written for the word of the day challenge. Today’s word was graduate.

Graduate

Originally Published 05/20/2024

Deadly Blue Eyes

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I’ll tell you a story of Dottie McGill

She was born out of tough circumstances

Now she fights off, a desire to kill

We know not why of her mad desires

Is it her madness or just shear will

A look of blood in her cold blue eyes

Gives my heart an arctic chill

Loving her, is taking great chances

I wonder if anyone will swallow that pill?

-aaa

Previously Published 05/18/2024

I’m Gone

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Use me

abuse me

and you’ll lose me

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Flake me

Fake me

And you’ll mistake me

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Hurt me

Shirk me

And I’ll dessert thee

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Push me

Prod me

And flog me.

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I thought you were the one

Instead you used me for fun

And now I’m done…

-aaa

Originally Published 05/18/2024

Toupee Away!

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There once was a woman from Spaulding

Who’s husband was rapidly balding

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So she bought him a cheap wig

Slapping lipstick on a pig.

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Though his appearance is still quite appalling…

-aaa

Originally Published 05/17/2024

Billy The Dud

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Billy knows he’s an absolute stud

To the ladies, he’s more of a crud.

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With a patchouli spray

And leisure suit on display.

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He looks like an absolute dud…

-aaa

Originally Published 05/17/2024

Tornado!

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Moore, OK Tornado Stock News Footage 05/03/1999
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Skies darken,

                    as billowy clouds 

                start to fill up the air.

           Whites give way to grays 

       then blacks with green mixed in.

The rains come in torrents, hail falls, and 

winds start to pick up seemingly out of nowhere.

The sirens sound and you know it’s for real.

             You pray the prayer of shame,

“Please not my city, not my street, not my house”.

        You hear the sound of a freight train 

                without any tracks near you.

Knowing what’s coming you enter your walk in closet and hunker down the best you can.

      You hear it come and then go abruptly.

Fortunately, it missed your house and neighborhood.

          Others, nearby, were not so lucky.

Losing all they’ve ever owned in 30 seconds.

-AAA 11/17/2024

Taking on today’s Word of the day which is  “Cheat”

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https://wordofthedaychallenge.wordpress.com/2024/05/16/cheat/

IF I EVER THOUGHT THEY YOU’D CHEAT

If I ever thought that you’d cheat,

then I never would’ve loved you.

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If I ever thought that you’d cheat,

then I’d’ve known I was miles above you.

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If I ever thought that you’d cheat,

then I never would’ve proposed to you.

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If I’d ever thought you’d cheat,

then I wouldn’t have given the most to you.

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If I ever thought that you’d cheat,

then I wouldn’t’ve given flowers to you.

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If I ever thought that you’d cheat,

then I wouldn’t have given hours to you .

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If I ever thought that you’d cheat,

then I wouldn’t have given my soul to you.

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If I ever thought that you’d cheat,

then I wouldn’t have given control to you.

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If I ever thought that you’d cheat,

then I wouldn’t have given my heart to you.

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If I ever thought that you’d cheat,

then I wouldn’t even start with you.

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If I ever thought that you’d cheat,

then I wouldn’t have married you.

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If I ever thought that you’d cheat,

then I wouldn’t have carried you.

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If I ever thought that you’d cheat,

then I wouldn’t have fought for you.

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If I ever thought that you’d cheat,

then I wouldn’t’ve spent or bought for you.

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If I ever thought that you’d cheat,

then I wouldn’t of been a friend to you.

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If I ever thought that you’d cheat,

then I’d sooner end it with you.

-AAA 05/17/2024

Originally Published 05/17/2024

Frankensteina

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Short tempered teacher sits at her loom

Creating a dark aura of gloom.

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Her students remained frightened

Since her bolts need to be tightened.

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So the classroom is filled with such doom.

-aaa

Originally Published 05/16/2024

Seeds…

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There once was a bloke from Leeds

That came upon some seeds

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Pondering what was found

Inserting himself in the ground 🙄

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He later moved on to seedier deeds…

-aaa

Originally Published 05/16/2024

I Can’t Stop Writing

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I’m not going to write now I refuse

But then the words come that I must use

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My creativity is taking abuse

Yet my compulsion writes as I choose

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If you were in my shoes

You’d understand my views

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So my brain without relief, stews

I’d rather be restful on a cruise

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Alas, here I again sharing my truths

Another example which poetry proves…

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One final thought as I complete these grooves

Is my art imitating life or life imitating art, it behooves…

-aaa

Originally Published 05/16/2024

Head Over

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Come on over

Come as you are

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Are you a hypnotist

Are you gonna go my way.

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Way to San José

Way to go

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Go fourth among the people

Go now

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Now is the time

Now or never

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Never say “never”

Never had no one, ever

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Ever Have To Make Up Your Mind

Ever long

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Long ago in a galaxy far far away

Long Time

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Time after time

Time in a bottle

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Bottle-nosed dolphin

Bottle of wine

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Wine by the bottle

Wine me

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Me oh my

Me myself and I

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I never want to see you again.

I am one

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One way or another

One (is the loneliest number)

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Number one

Number three

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Three it’s a magic number

Three strange days

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Days of our lives

Days of thunder

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Thunder rolls

Thunder island

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Islands in the street

Island in the sun

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Sunshine Superman

Sun goes down

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Down to the bottom

Down in a hole

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Hole in the bucket

Hole in my head

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Head down

Head on over

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Over my head

Over and out

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Head…

Out…

-aaa

Originally Published 05/15/2024

Current Music, Just Isn’t The Same 

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How do people listen to auto-tuned junk 

Rather than the protest of hardcore punk

Or George Clinton and his Parliament funk

Modern music, far too easy to debunk.

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What would the youngsters do or say 

If they heard all the music I had to play

With unaided singer’s, all out on display

Non computerized instruments at the fray.

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Probably, they’d find me crazy but I’m not 

Just using these enormous ears I’ve got 

Knowing a difference between art and rot

It’s just the weirdo that I am believe it or not.

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Your music brain needs more to eat

Than loud bass and persistent beat 

Those songs feed my rapid retreat

Into my own music then I’m compete.

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Don’t give me static when I cringe and frown 

When I hear overuse of bass going down 

I’ll wear my headphones like my crown

Playing the best music that can be found…

-AAA 11/17/2024

Seduction of Destruction 

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Unsuspected 

Angel of death

Victims don’t know

Until last breath.

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Cold blood in her

Runs like the wind

Her heart is ice

Many times sinned.

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In her clutches 

Haven’t a chance

She’ll destroy you 

From that first dance.

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Many untruths

To get her way

Keep you guessing

Both night and day.

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She will proclaim 

You’re the loser

But it’s all lies

From an abuser.

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Start making plans

To escape soon

Further away

Than nighttime’s moon.

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Just run away 

And don’t look back

You’ll turn to stone

From all that flack…

-AAA11/17/2024

Lady Luck

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Miss Lady Luck

Doesn’t give a f*%k

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She’ll grab all your cash

In less than a flash

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She’ll take your bank roll

Leaving a gaping hole

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She’ll take your additional money

And you’ll lose that too, not funny

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She’ll take your jackpot win

And let it go super thin

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She’ll take your paycheck advance

If you give her half a chance

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She’ll stand at your side and leave you flat

And there’s little you can do about that…

-aaa

Originally Published 05/15/2024

Vertigo

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I stand and I fall

The world is moving violently

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I close my eyes

Everything is still moving

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I feel myself taken by it

Caught up in the endless motion

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It’s almost like I feel this wave

Taking me away and whirling me about

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Nothing is still

Looking in the mirror I appear to be moving

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Everything takes on a violent spin

All I can do is lay down and take it all in

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Even in the quiet darkness

Everything is still moving though I lay still

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Drifting to thankful sleep

The dizziness haunts my dreams…

-aaa

Originally Published 05/16/2024

Odd Ponderings

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Do ribosomes have any ribs 

Do baby fetishists wear bibs.

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Do any flat earther’s believe in common sense

Or does the joy of their ignorance their recompense.

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Would Chef Boyardee be proud of his food 

Or would knowledge it is hyper processed darken his mood. 

-AAA 11/15/2024

I’m Still in WordPress Jail

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I still subscribe or like with a fail

Nearly 30 days in WordPress jail.

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Accused of spamming and being a BOT

Ironically on both counts, guilty I am not.

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I’m still not sure why this hellfire has rained

Other than a Karen or Ken has complained.

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It’s really funny and ironic too

I still receive spams from others that do.

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I’m in jail and they run free

Untouched in their litany.

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I don’t know when this sentence will go

I’m contemplating leaving WordPress you know.

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I’m doing all I can to maintain success

Writing and re-blogging my poetry no less.

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Others, shared they encountered this too

I guess there’s nothing I can do.

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All I do is try to move along 

Writing more to prove them wrong.

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That’s really where I am to blame

It’s writing from whence my numbers came.

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Thousands of poems and essays of sorts 

Many hybrids and even descourts.

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I wish they’d get off their high horse and hang up the phone

Let me blog in peace, and leave me alone…

-AAA 11/15/2024